Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

NASA and other space agencies are tracking 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid with a small chance of impacting our planet in ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

What are the odds that a meteorite would fall on you? According to an astronomer’s estimations, they are 1 in 700,000. Until ...

The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, holds fascinating clues about the origins of organic molecules in ou.

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

"This is a story about the moon as told by asteroid scientists." Earth's distant rocky companion was likely a fragment of the moon blasted into space thousands of years ago, according to a new ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

The sun’s light exerts a tiny force called “solar radiation pressure” on objects in space. Lightweight human-made debris, ...